Naoki Yoshinaga
Associate Professor
Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolNaoki Yoshinaga is an Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo with over a decade of experience in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics, focused on designing novel, high-impact NLP tasks rather than revisiting established benchmarks. With a PhD in Computer Science and a background that spans research fellowships, industry labs (RIKEN R-CCS, NICT), and a visiting stint at Sussex, he blends deep academic rigor with applied research perspective. He has steadily progressed through academic ranks since 2002, demonstrating sustained leadership in task formulation and methodology. Trained originally as a physicist, he brings an interdisciplinary mindset that surfaces in creative problem definitions and cross-domain approaches to language problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Tokyo
Github Skills (10)
simulations10
quantum-computing10
quantum-mechanics10
cpp10
cluster-computing8
mpi8
openmp7
monte-carlo4
oak2
owl2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
naoki-yoshioka/yampi
May 2016 - Feb 2023
Header only library of MPI for C++
Contributions:21 releases, 281 commits, 84 PRs in 6 years 10 months
cppmpiheadercluster-computingc-plus-plus
jhpc-quantum/RIKEN-braket
Nov 2017 - Oct 2022
Software/library for simulations of quantum gates
Contributions:31 releases, 307 commits, 155 PRs in 5 years
library-softwarecppquantum-mechanicsquantum-computinggates
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